“The boundaries we erect to divide heaven from earth, mind from matter, real from unreal are mere conveniences. Having made the boundaries, we can unmake them just as easily.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“I think that the Church not only should apologize … to a gay person whom it offended but it must also apologize to the poor as well, to the women who have been exploited, to children who have been exploited by (being forced to) work. It must apologize for having blessed so many weapons.”— Pope Francis, refinery29.com
“You must ask for God’s help. Even when you have done so, it may seem to you for a long time that no help, or less help than you need, is being given. Never mind. After each failure, ask for forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue its…”— C.S. Lewis, amazon.com
“Exchange the bad habit of worrying with the excellent habit of trusting God.”— Elizabeth George, amazon.com
“Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“Do you think we mortals will find you gods easier to bear if you’re beautiful? I tell you that if that’s true we’ll find you a thousand times worse. For then (I know what beauty does) you’ll lure and entice. You’ll leave us nothing; nothing that’s worth our keeping or your taking. Those we love best…”— C.S. Lewis, amazon.com
“If you can separate the KKK and Westboro from Christianity then you should be able to separate ISIS from Islam.”— Anonymous, bushralj.tumblr.com
“We are all entitled to our opinions and religious beliefs, but we are not entitled to make shit up and then use the shit we made up to oppress other people.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“The idea of Original Sin—of guilt where there is no possibility of innocence, no freedom of choice, no alternatives available—is anti-self-esteem by its very nature. The very notion of guilt without volition or responsibility is an assault on reason as well as on morality.”— Nathaniel Branden, amazon.com
“God's Final Message to His Creation: 'We apologize for the inconvenience.'”— Douglas Adams, amazon.com
“He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.”— Douglas Adams, amazon.com
“Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.”— Muhammad Ali, amazon.com
“HEAVEN LIKE, YOU CAN BE HOLY, BUT ONLY IF YOU LOVE THE RIGHT WAY.”— Schuyler Peck, schuylerpeck.tumblr.com
“Religions all have different names, but they all contain the same truths. [...] I think the people of our religion should be tolerant and understand people believe different things.”— Muhammad Ali, cnn.com
“Well, Black people have actually been in jail for four-hundred years here in America. But I don't worry about jail, I believe in Allah, I believe in Elijah Muhammad — as the messenger of god —and many great men have had to go to jail. So I don't pay attention to it. If the time comes, I'll have to g…”— Muhammad Ali, youtube.com
“But men have been committing heinous acts in the name of God ever since mankind began believing in deities, and extremists exist within all religions.”— Jon Krakauer, amazon.com